Cigar-holder.



W. D; GIQSONm CIGAR HOLDER. APPucAloN FILED Novf2`9. |915. 1,214,153. Patented Jan; 30,1917.

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WILLIAM D. GIBSON, OF SEATTLE, VASl-EINGTON.

CIGAR-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 30, 1917.

Application filed November 29, 1915. Serial No. 64,182.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM D. GIBSON, citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Vashington, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cigar-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cigar-holders, and the object of my invention is to provide a cigar-holder within which an end portion of a cigar may be inserted to be securely fastened therein and which, in the operation of so disposing said cigar, will perforate the end portion of the cigars wrapper so that smoke may be easily drawn therethrough, thus making it unnecessary for one to bite 01T or cut oit' the tip of said cigar before inserting said end portion within said cigar-holder.

A further object of my improvements is to provide a cigar-holder with means for diffusing the smoke of cigar as it issues from the outlet end of the cigar-holder, thereby in some degree to cool such smoke and to intercept portions of its nicotine and also to prevent such smoke from impinging against ones tongue in a concentrated stream.

l accomplish these objects by devices illustrated in the accompanying drawings where- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigarholder embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a view of the same in longitudinal mid-section on broken line y, y of Fig. 1; Fig. i3 is a view of the same in cross-section on broken line fc, rc of Fig. 2; Fig. i is a view on a reduced sca-le in side elevation of a detail of the same; Fig. 5 is an enlarged view in crosssection on broken line s, 2 of the detail shown in Fig. 4:; and Fig. 6 is a view in side elevation of a modified form of the detail shown in Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawings, throughout which like reference numerals indicate like parts, a body portion 7, made of any suitable material, as of wood, vulcanized hard rubber or amber, is of the general form of a cigar-holder of a common type and within its larger portion may be inserted the closed end portion of a cigar to fit snugly therein as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. The passageway for smoke through the smaller end portion of said body portion 7 is of such large cross-sectional area as will permit the insertion therein of a plug 8 which is provided with a head 9, said plug 8 being of such different form of cross-section from the cross-sectional shape of said passageway as will form passageways for smoke, as passageways 10, between portions of its surface and portions of the surface of said passageway as more clearly shown in Fig. 3; and the inner side surface of the head 9 adjacent to the end surface of the smaller end of the body portion 7 is of such curved form, as shown in Fig. 2, as will permit smoke to pass outwardly from said passageways 10 in a sidewise direction as shown.

Fixed within the inner end portion of the plug 8 to project therefrom is a shaft 11 whose outer end is pointed like a barbed arrow-head, as arrow-head 12, whose barbs are bent sidewise in opposite directions as shown in Fig. 5, and which shaft 11 is of a length to cause its pointed end to reach nearly to the entrance of the larger end of the body portion 7 when the plug 8 is inserted to its fullest extent within the smaller end portion of said body portion 7.

A cigar-holder when constructed as shown and described, may be utilized by withdrawing the plug 8 from the body portion 7 whereupon the closed end portion of a cigar may be inserted within the larger end portion of said body portion 7 and there be held while the arrow-head 12 is inserted through the passageway in the smaller end of the body portion 7 and the plug 8 is pushed inwardly until the head 9 engages with said smaller end of the body portion 7 thus to cause the barbed arrow-head 12 to cut through the wrapper of the cigar and be projected into the cigar to the position indicated in Fig. 2 thereby to lock the cigarh older in its position on the cigar in an obvious manner.

In Fig. 6 I have shown a modified form of pointed shaft, as shaft 13, which may be substituted for the shaft 11, and said shaft 13 is not provided with barbs, but it serves to puncture the wrapper of a cigar and aids in retaining a cigar in its position` within the cigar-holder. Obviously, the arrow-head 12 may be of a dierent form than that shown and other parts of my invention may be changed in form, dimensions and arrangement without departing from the Wirit thereof.

What l claim is:

In a cigar-holder of the class described, the combination with a body portion which is provided with a passageway extending lengthwise therethrough, and one end portion of which is formed to adapt it to receive an end portion of a cigar, while its other end portion is formed to adapt it to serve as a mouth-piece, of a plug -adapted to be inserted within saidpassageway at the mouth-piece end of said body portion, said plug having a different form of cross-section from the shape of the cross-section of said passageway and having a head whose inner side is curved; and a shaft having one of its ends fastened to the inner end of said plug and having its other end provided with a barbed oint.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe i5 my name this 23rd day of November A. D., 1915.

-. WILLIAM D. GIBSON.

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Washington, D. G. 

